Presentation Articles

List of articles for the presentations

Each student will give two short (5-8 minute) presentations on readings not assigned to the class. Below is a list of possible readings. Feel free to consult with me if there is a particular topic you would like to read about which is not included in this list. One of the readings must cover any period prior to 1900. The second reading must be predominantly about any period after 1900. The selected reading should be an article from a scholarly journal, a chapter from a volume of collected essays or a portion of a book (30-50 pages).

Articles marked with ** are in our book Chinese Femininities/Chinese Masculinities.

The Journal of Asian Studies is available in the library and via JSTOR.

Late Imperial China is available in the library and via Project Muse

Works with call numbers are either on reserve or in the stacks

The journal Nan Nü can be borrowed from me.

Articles on periods BEFORE 1900

Bray, Francesca. Technology and gender: fabrics of power in late imperial China. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1997. HQ1768 .B72 1997

Carlitz, Katherine. “The Daughter, the Singing-Girl, and the Seduction of Suicide.” Nan Nü: Men, Women and Gender in Early and Imperial China 3, no. 1 (2001): 22-46.

—. “Desire, Danger & the Body: Stories of Women’s Virtue in Late Ming China.” In Engendering China, ed. Gilmartin, et al, 101‑24. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1994. Reserve: HQ1767 .E52

Cass, Victoria. Dangerous Women: Warriors, Grannies and Geishas of the Ming. Lanham, MD: Rowman & Littlefield, 1999. HQ1137 C5 C37

Ebrey, Patricia. “Gender and Sinology: Shifting Western Interpretations of Footbinding, 1300-1890.” Late Imperial China 20, no. 1 (December 1999): 1-34.

**Furth, Charlotte. “Blood, Body, and Gender: Medical Images of the Female Condition in China, 1600-1850.” In Chinese Femininities / Chinese Masculinities, edited by Brownell & Wasserstrom, 291-314. Berkeley: University of California Press, 2002.

—. “Rethinking Van Gulik: Sexuality and Reproduction in Traditional Chinese Medicine.” In Engendering China, edited by Gilmartin, et al, 125-146. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1994. Reserve: HQ1767 .E52

Grant, Beata. “Female Holder of the Lineage: Linji Chan Master Zhiyuan Xinggang (1597-1654).” Late Imperial China 17, no.2 (December 1996): 51-76.

—. “Who is This I? Who is That Other? The Poetry of an Eighteenth Century Buddhist Laywoman.” Late Imperial China 15.1 (June 1994): 47-86.

Hinsch, Bret. Women in Early Imperial China. Lanham, MD: Rowman & Littlefield, 2002. HQ1767 H55

—. Passions of the Cut Sleeve : The Male Homosexual Tradition in China. Berkeley : University of California Press, 1990. HQ76.2 C5 H56

Hu Ying. “Re-Configuring Nei/Wai: Writing the Woman Traveler in the Late Qing.” Late Imperial China 18, no.1 (June 1997): 72-99.

Hsiung Ping-chen. “Constructed Emotions: The Bond Between Mothers and Sons in Late Imperial China.” Late Imperial China 15, no.1 (June 1994): 87-117.

Huntington, Rania. “Foxes and Sex in Late Imperial China.” Nan Nü: Men, Women and Gender in Early and Imperial China 2, no.1 (June 2000): 78-128.

Ko, Dorothy. “Pursuing Talent and Virtue: Education and Women’s Culture in Seventeenth and Eighteenth Century China.” Late Imperial China 13, no.1: (June 1992): 9-39.

Leung, Angela Ki Che. “Relief Institutions for Children in Nineteenth-Century China.” In Chinese Views of Childhood, ed. Anne Behnke Kinney, 251-278. Honolulu: University of Hawai’i Press, 1995. Reserve: HQ792 C5 C475

—. “To Chasten Society: The Development of Widow Homes in the Qing, 1773-1911.” Late Imperial China 14, no.2 (December 1993): 1-32.

** Mann, Susan. “Grooming a Daughter for Marriage: Brides and Wives in the Mid-Qing Period.” In Chinese Femininities / Chinese Masculinities, ed. Brownell & Wasserstrom. Berkeley: University of California Press, 2002.

—. Precious Records: Women in China’s Long Eighteenth Century. Stanford: Stanford University Press, 1997. in library

—. “Learned Women in the Eighteenth Century.” In Engendering China, edited by Gilmartin, et al. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1994. Reserve: HQ1767 .E52

Ng, Vivien. “Ideology and Sexuality: Rape Laws in Qing China.” Journal of Asian Studies 46, no.1 (February 1987): 51-70.

Paderni, Paola. “I Thought I Would Have Some Happy Days: Women Eloping in Eighteenth-Century China.” Late Imperial China 16, no.1 (June 1995):1-32.

Robertson, Maureen. “Voicing the Feminine: Constructions of the Gendered Subject in Lyric Poetry by Women of Medieval and Late Imperial China.” Late Imperial China 13, no.1 (June 1992): 63-110.

Rowe, William T. “Women and the Family in Mid-Qing Social Thought: The Case of Chen Hongou.” Late Imperial China 13, no.2 (December 1992): 1-41.

Sommer, Matthew H. “The Uses of Chastity: Sex, Law, and the Property of Widows in Qing China.” Late Imperial China 17, no.2 (June 1996): 77-118.

Szonyi, Michael. “The Cult of Hu Tianbao and the Eighteenth-Century Discourse of Homosexuality.” Late Imperial China 19, no.1 (June 1998): 1-25.

Theiss, Janet. “Managing Martyrdom: Female Suicide and Statecraft in Mid-Qing China.” Nan Nü: Men, Women and Gender in Early and Imperial China 3, no.1 (2001): 47-76.

Waltner, Ann. “Infanticide and Dowry in Ming and Early Qing China.” In Chinese Views of Childhood, ed. Anne Behnke Kinney, 193-217. Honolulu: University of Hawai’i Press, 1995. Reserve: HQ792 C5 C475

—. Getting an Heir: Adoption and the Construction of Kinship in Late Imperial China. Honolulu: University of Hawai’i Press, 1990. HV875.58.C6 W35 1990

—. “T’an-Yang-tzu and Wang Shih-chen: Visionary and Bureaucrat in the Late Ming.” Late Imperial China 8, no.1 (June 1987): 105-33.

Widmer, Ellen & Kang-I Sun Chang, eds. Writing Women in Late Imperial China. Stanford: Stanford University Press, 1997. PL2264 W72 Choose one article.

Wu, Yenna. “The Inversion of Marital Hierarchy: Shrewish Wives and Henpecked Husbands in Seventeenth-Century Chinese Literature.” Harvard Journal of Asiatic Studies 48, no. 2 (1988): 363-382.

Zamperini, Paola. “But I Never Learned to Waltz: The ‘Real’ and Imagined Education of a Courtesan in the Late Qing.” Nan Nü: Men, Women and Gender in Early and Imperial China 1, no.1 (1999): 107-44.

**Glosser, Susan. “‘The Truths I have Learned’: Nationalism, Family Reform, and Male Identity in China’s New Culture Movement, 1915-1923.” In Chinese Femininities / Chinese Masculinities, ed. Brownell & Wasserstrom, 120-144. Berkeley: University of California Press, 2002.

Honig, Emily. Sisters and Strangers: Women in the Shanghai Cotton Mills, 1919-1949. Stanford: Stanford University Press, 1986. HD6073.T42 C64 1986

Judd, Ellen R. “Niangjia: Chinese Women and Their Natal Families.” Journal of Asian Studies 48, no.3 (August 1989): 525-44.

Lavely, William. “Marriage and Mobility under Rural Collectivization.” In Marriage and Inequality in Chinese Society ed. Rubie S. Watson and Patricia Buckley Ebrey, 286-312. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1991. Reserve: HQ734 M3873

Li Xiaojiang. “Economic Reform and the Awakening of Chinese Women’s Collective Consciousness.” In Engendering China, ed. Gilmartin, et al, 360-382. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1994. Reserve: HQ1767 .E52

Li Ziyun. “Women’s Consciousness and Women’s Writing.” In Engendering China, ed. Gilmartin, et al, 299-317. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1994. Reserve: HQ1767 .E52

Lupher, Mark. “Revolutionary Little Red Devils: The Social Pscychology of Rebel Youth, 1966-1967.” In Chinese Views of Childhood, ed. Anne Behnke Kinney, 321-343. Honolulu: University of Hawai’i Press, 1995. Reserve: HQ792 C5 C475

Ocko, Jonathan K. “Women, Property, and Law in the People’s Republic of China.” In Marriage and Inequality in Chinese Society ed. Rubie S. Watson and Patricia Buckley Ebrey, 313-346. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1991. Reserve: HQ734 M3873

Rofel, Lisa. “Liberation Nostalgia and a Yearning for Modernity.” In Engendering China, ed. Gilmartin, et al, 226-249. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1994. Reserve: HQ1767 .E52

**Schein, Louisa. “Gender and Internal Orientalism in China.” In Chinese Femininities / Chinese Masculinities, ed. Brownell & Wasserstrom, 385-411. Berkeley: University of California Press, 2002.

Watson, Rubie S. 1991. “Wives, Concubines, and Maids: Servitude and Kinship in the Hong Kong Region, 1900-1940.” In Rubie S. Watson and Patricia Buckley Ebrey, editors, Marriage and Inequality in Chinese Society. Berkeley: University of California Press. 231-255. Reserve: HQ734 M3873

White, Tyrene. “The Origins of China’s Birth Planning Policy.” In Engendering China, ed. Gilmartin, et al. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1994. Reserve: HQ1767 .E52

Woo, Margaret Y.K. “Chinese Women Workers: The Delicate Balance between Protection and Equality.” In Engendering China, ed. Gilmartin, et al. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1994. Reserve: HQ1767 .E52

Zhong, Xueping. Masculinity Beseiged?: Issues of Modernity and Male Subjectivity in Chinese Literature of the Late Twentieth Century. Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2000. PL2303 .Z48

Zhu Hong. “Women, Illness, and Hospitalization: Images of Women in Contemporary Fiction.” In Engendering China, ed. Gilmartin, et al, 318-338. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1994. Reserve: HQ1767 .E52